Merrick Garland's tough day
Yesterday Joe Biden's AG Merrick Garland faced withering questions from Republican Senators at a regular hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Garland had a hard time answering questions and was often left repeating what the DOJ hoped to do as opposed to what it actually had done. One of the most heated episodes happened when Senator Ted Cruz asked about the DOJ's double standard and refusal to enforce certain laws:
Cruz noted that the Department of Justice has been politicized to the greatest extent he has ever seen. Garland really had no answer
Then there was Senator Jsh Hawley:
Anti-Catholic bias? Again Garland had little to come back with.
In normal times when the Department heads of Government keep saying they don't know the answers to basic questions about the people they are officially in charge of, they would be criminally charged with dereliction of duty and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but this is the era of the left. Garland knows that nothing will happen to him no matter how blatantly he defies the law or implements a double standard of justice.
Yesterday we learned that the FBI didn't really want to raid Mar-a-Lago in the manner that it did, but it was the DOJ (Garland) that over-ruled them. We also learned that there was at least one FBI investigation of a parent who attended a school board meeting. We also heard Garland defend his non support of a law to protect Federal judges from protests & harrassment designed to influence or intimidate them as a law that has never been enforced.
The media barely covered it.
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How many even knew that Garland testified befored the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday?
Who wrote this garbage?
It has to be truth!
The liars won't touch it.
Why does it have to be truth? Because you said so?
Not newsworthy at all.
Liars and scumbag traitors grilling Garland.
this hearing is a weak misdirection orchestrated by the J6 insurrectionist supporters and participants embedded in congress. a feeble attempt by those being investigated to discredit the investigators and prosecutors. on the plus side, they'll be telling those americans that believe in the concept of equal justice for all exactly what needs to happen to bill barr in the near future.
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The yardstick I'm using is the notables who won't dare contest any of it.
And that's the truth! Vengeance and retribution and investigating the investigators of their failed insurrection/coup is the truth.
It's not the truth. It's exactly as dev described.
The leftists always claim that anything derogatory towards Democrats and their sycophants is some deflection, as if liberals can ONLY do one thing poorly at a time.
He described something?
Check again. All he did was smear Senators.
What he did was tell the truth, which is not a smear.
Explain it to us
Waves hand! Nice to see FOX had something to divert away to from its own unmentionable issues.
I'm not surprised!
It's exactly as dev described.
I'm not certain what he was trying to say.
Could you explain it to me?
You shouldn't be, I never miss a chance to guffaw at former canadians.
It is ironic
Of course, you are certain of what he said.
Of course they didn't cover it. By their own actions they have shown that they support all this bullshit put forth by the Democrats. They've been doing it since at least 2016 when they started pushing the false narratives of a sitting POTUS being an agent of and colluding with Russia.
There won't wont be any highly promoted hearings now!
Garland looked lost. But when you have no valid arguments to make, that's going to happen.
And he kept repeating talking points. He knows what his legacy will be, but what the hell, he got even with McConnell.
He's certainly managed to prove McConnell correct. Any doubts he was a "moderate" have long since been dispelled.
Sending dozens of armed FBI agents with guns drawn into a home with children present because someone allegedly shoved someone else is not a defensible use of law enforcement resources. Garland knows it. Every sane person knows it, but because he's a political hack he put on a show for his base.
We should have known as soon as Obama nominated him for the Court.
he's a political hack he put on a show for his base.
What a rotten barrel it is!
He is a moderate being grilled by reich wing morons and a traitor - Hawley - one who instigated and helped the former 'president' incite and plan 1/6.
GRAHAM: "Would you oppose some of us trying to make [Mexican drug cartels] foreign terrorist organizations?"
GARLAND: "I want to point out, there are diplomatic concerns. We need the assistance of Mexico in this..."
When and where did that happen? Proof?
Read the link you were given!
So what?
Why would I do that?
It has nothing to do with his claim
Don't you think it is odd that there are these diplomatic concerns about taking out Mexican cartels?
So you may have the answer to your question.
It didn't answer the question. It was a deflection from the question that you will never answer.
How would you know if you don't look at it?
Deflection and denial ... as you say!
Yes there are diplomatic concerns in any actions taken outside of the United States. Unless you just want us to invade a neighboring country for our own reasons like Putin.
Better than going half way around the world to do it, no? /S
We could declare them terrorist organizations since that is what they are. Fuck Mexico if it doesn't like it.
So far they are, as well as Central & South American countries. The problem is that their business is in the United States.
Is Mexico part of the United States?
No, but the problem is that the cartels are far more powerful than the Mexican government. How much longer do we wait for those cartels to challenge our own local law enforcement? They need to be declared as terrorist organizations and taken out by our military, no matter where they hide.
Good point. No foreign groups are labeled by terrorist organizations by the US government.
I looked at the deflection, it didn't answer my question.
Wow, now that is a lame deflection attempt to justify keeping your head in the sand. Carry on.
By all means and don't forget the Sackler family who flung open the door.
He was never a moderate. The US dodged a bullet when Garland was kept off the Supreme Court.
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Sure, why not?
Did we ever!!!
He has proven incompetent and ineffectual.
Sorta like cutting out the middleman. Very efficient as long since they don't worry about being accurate
You're correct, your denial changes nothing.
p.s. +your projection and deflection on top of your denial.
Ted Cruz is a laughingstock, even among right wingers. Who the hell cares what he says in his grandstanding bit?
Oh, I see.
Who the hell cares what he says
I do!
You care about a lot of inconsequential things.
You mean like what once was the world's greatest nation being turned into an authoritarian state?
Yes, I am concerned.
newsflash, the voters got rid of the autocratic POS that was biggest threat in november 2020...
Such an autocrat he is still President!
Smmfh
newsflash, trump lost...
Chicago is no hell hole. Have you ever been? Any major city has its problems of course but that doesn't make Chicago a hell hole.
Travelers Conde Nast survey has named Chicago the best big city in America for the past six years in a row.
Some folks are clueless
Exactly, a great city for white folks that Condé Nast caters to. My white family and I have enjoyed Chicago several times.
Any city the size of Chicago is going to have a myriad of people who like it and dont like it. Although Chicago does get a fair amount of tourism you dont have to be a tourist to appreciate all there is to see and do in Chicago, nor is everything about the city predicated on the crime rate. The vast majority of people of Chicago never encounter crime. The idea that Chicago is a "hell hole" is uninformed idiocy.
Exactly which explains the growth in white population and the loss in Black population.
Absolutely, as a white father with children downtown and on the west side, I never felt unsafe.
You got that right, you have to get to the neighborhood level before that’s true in some areas.
Do you think its normal that it would be risky for me to go see where my father grew up (though its now a vacant lot, like so much of the south side). Is it acceptable that large swaths of the city are as dangerous as any non warzone in the world?
Chicago is 26 miles long and about 9 miles wide. That is just the city limits. It is highly misinforming to tell people such a big place is a "hell hole". To be more precise, it is ridiculous.
I live on the south side
Yes, there are very nice parts of the south side. Barnabas was my first parish and that's a beautiful area.
But if you go 4 or 5 miles north of those houses its a different world. And that's the point. No matter where you are in Chicago, you are a handful of miles from chaos.
Does it bother you at all you are probably a brisk walk away from having a very good chance of being a crime victim? Or, best case, be surrounded by urban blight and poverty?
1. Chicago does not have the highest crime rate in the country, and on a year by year basis almost never does.
2. There are many cities in America as troubled or more so than Chicago. They just dont get the national media attention.
3. Chicago's racial divide stems from institutional racism and white flight, 50 years ago.
4. There are neighborhoods in every city you dont want to go into. Chicago has neighborhoods that are like Brooklyn, or like Queens, or like Manhattan, or like the Bronx, just not as many of them as New York does. Is New York a hell hole?
Sooo....
you know Leroy Brown , and his custom Continental , and his Eldorado too, he been known to carry a .32 gun in his pocket full of fun and a razor in his shoe ....
Your welcome for the ear worm , admit it you started singing that as you read it ....
Wasn’t Chicago also very blue then, wasn’t the Boss, Mayor Richard Daley in charge then?
Apparently Cruz kept his eyes shut during the entire Trump presidency.
In other words, you want to talk about the Trump Presidency?
I'm sure you didn't like that.
He sees much more clearly than you!
Deflection attempted. Deflection FAILED.
Whew, for a second there I thought no one was going to try and pivot the seed to Trump. Thanks for restoring my faith in TDS
hey, it took ALL of TWO whole hours before the deflection!
Merrick Garland is incompetent. Thank you Mitch for keeping this moron off the Supreme Court.
Garland is a fucking moron; who expects everyone to be morons and believe him.
Garland doesn't give a shit about crisis pregnancy centers. He doesn't give a shit about leftist violence. He doesn't give a shit about crimes committed by anyone with a D behind their name. He is a tool of the Brandon administration. The most partisan POS AG ever; and he is taking the FBI down with him.
They actually have to investigate the attacks before they can find the perps that committed the crimes. Garland and the FBI have no interest in doing either.